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31 January 2011

With no pumpkin in the house, and not wanting to go out into the cold, I made sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving when we living in London. It has to be the yummiest thing I have ever eaten, until I made these... drum roll.... I give you.... Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Cinnamon cream cheese frosting!!Ta-dah! You must must must try this recipe.

Directions1. Peel and dice the sweet potato. Cook it until tender enough to be mashed. Mash it and then let it cool. You can't put hot potato in the mixture, it will make the butter melt and the eggs scramble.2. Cream the butter, sugar and eggs together. A3. Add the spices, salt, and milk. 4. Add the cooled potato and mix altogether.5. Mix in the flour and baking powder.6. Spoon a tablespoon of mixture into each cupcake case and bake in the oven for 10-15 mins until the centre is cooked.

Directions1. Beat together the butter, sugar and eggs2. Add spices, salt, and vanilla and milk3. Mix in flour and baking powder by hand4. Add the chopped up glace ginger pieces and mix gently4. Put a tablespoon of mixture into cupcake cases and bake for 10-15 mins.6. Test middle of cupcake with knife or skewer.

Straight out of the oven, I couldn't taste the coconut and I could smell egg... which is a real no-no for me... if you have read my other posts you will know I hatethat eggy smell.

BUT!..... the next day they tasted wicked... and we tried very hard to leave them for everyone else to eat, but once we started, we couldn't stop! My DH and I ate 3 each!! :} (there goes my diet. again. stop baking cupcakes Janelle!!).

Directions:1.mix butter, sugar, egg, salt, and flavouring together with an electric beater.2. mix in by hand, the coconut milk and then the flours and baking powder3. put a small table spoon of mixture into each cupcake paper, 1 1/2 if you want cupcakes to pop up higher.4. Bake in oven @180dC for 10-15 mins. Test they are cooked inside, don't wait for them to go golden on top as they might go dry.

Vanilla Butter-creamBeat with an electric mix: 250gms of butter to 500gms of pure icing sugar (not the icing mixture) and 1 tbs of vanilla extract/essence of flavouring. Your favourite colour and you're good to go! Remember to wait for the cupcakes to cool down!! :)

22 January 2011

We have a new range of non-edible cupcake toppers! Princess retro vintage dresses! From ballerina to vintage retro polka dot inspired dresses, we have a range of dress cupcake toppers designed to jazz up those yummy cupcakes you make at home.

Toppers can be personalised with letters or numbers on the tops of the dresses, and the colours can be changed: I just chose red, blue and pink because I love love love those colours together.